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(Austrian, 1860-1933)
Standing Male Academy
Graphite on Paper
11.1 x 8.1 in (28.3 x 20.6 cm)
Signed "HHirschl", lower right
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Provenance: Collection of Dr. Franz Weiss, Vienna; with Kunsthandel Boris Wilnitsky, Vienna Museums and Collections: The British Museum; museums throughout Italy and Austria |
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Adolf Hiremy-Hirschl emigrated to Vienna from Hungary as a young child.
Although trained as a history painter, he had also been friends with
Gustav Klimt
in the Visual Artists Cooperative, before Klimt
left that group to form
the Vienna Secession. He studied at the
Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.
In 1882, he won a prize
for his picture, L'Entrata dei Goti a Roma
('The Entry of the Goths into Rome') and travelled throughout Egypt. Hirschl visited Rome in 1882-84, where he had his first direct encounter with the classical world. He returned to Rome in 1898, where he spent the last thirty-five years of his life. In the 1890's, the dashing Hiremy-Hirschl conducted an affair with Viennese socialite, Isabella Henriette Victoria Ruston, the ravishing Austrian-born daughter of an English businessman. At the time, Isabella was married to a successful businessman in Vienna, Herr Schon. She divorced Schon in 1898 to marry Hirschl, and bore Hirschl his only child, a daughter, Maud. Hirschl deeply resented the intolerant reaction of Viennese society and at that point changed his name to Hiremy, a name with noble Hungarian connotations. He also resumed his Hungarian citizenship and left Vienna for good. From 1904 to 1908, he participated in the exhibitions of the Amatori e Cultori di Belle Arti. In 1912, he signed the great polyptych, Sic transit bought by the Rome City Council. In its 2001 Annual Review, The British Museum lists a black chalk drawing by Hiremy-Hirschl as one of the year's "outstanding acquisitions." |
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